ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,232, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MetaPWR Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Magnetic apparatus with sheet-shaped pin assemblies, power module, and method of making" was invented by Xiangfei Kang (Shanghai) and Yayu Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes disposing a substrate layer on a copper layer to form a pin assembly and adhering the pin assembly to a side surface of an inductor with bonding pads on either of the upper and lower surfaces, wherein welding surfaces are coplanarly aligned. An assembled magnetic apparatus including sheet-shaped pin assembly or pin assemblies and an inductor is thereby manuf...